Niobium flexure suspension design for high Q sapphire test masses for future gravitational wave detectors

We present results that demonstrate the likely advantages of niobium flexure suspensions for advanced gravitational wave detectors. It is shown that such suspensions can achieve high quality factor and allow test mass cooling to <10 K for 100 mW heat load.

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